Blackbird

A blackbird sits in a gorse bush accompanied by the words of the Early Irish Poem, “The Blackbird of Belfast Lough” drawn in an old Irish font.

Int én bec ro léc feit do rinn guip glan buidi

fo-ceird faíd ós Loch Laíg lon do chraíb charnbuidi

Which translates to:

the little bird that whistled shrill from the nib of its yellow bill

a note let go o’er Belfast Lough— a blackbird from a yellow whin

(Translated by Ciaran Carson)